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Definition of orderly in English:

orderly

adjective

1Neatly and methodically arranged:

‘an orderly arrangement of objects’

‘This is helped by the orderly arrangement of The Square and the very good developments of roadside verges on the approach roads.’

‘When I passed through Williton on my way to the railway station in Taunton early this afternoon the Shell garage was the focus of an orderly queue of vehicles waiting in line for their turn at the pumps.’

‘You would have seen the six armies, arranged in orderly fashion in the huge courtyard.’

‘I want to see an orderly set of arrangements, and the Crown manager is the person who is able to focus on that.’

‘Yes girls, you should be forming an orderly queue.’

‘Thoughts and perceptions must be arranged in an orderly sequence of ideas.’

‘This crystalline structure is an orderly arrangement of ions known as a crystal lattice.’

‘If the internal structure is formed in an orderly crystal arrangement, then the breaks will occur along the planes of the internal crystal structure.’

‘I can arrange them in an logical and orderly fashion in my mind.’

‘Who came up with the fatuous idea of getting drunken hooligans to form orderly queues at cash points across Britain?’

‘Anyone interested should form an orderly queue somewhere that won't get in the way of everybody else.’

‘Many common solids are crystalline, which means that their molecules are arranged in an orderly pattern that resembles a three-dimensional grid.’

‘Quasicrystals are unusual metallic alloys whose atoms are arranged in orderly patterns that are not quite crystalline.’

‘An x-ray crystallographic picture of quartz would show atoms arranged in an orderly, periodic sequence.’

‘An asexual adult colony is made up of just two cell types arranged in an orderly pattern.’

‘Our hope is that the new management will maintain order and have minibus drivers queue in an orderly fashion for their passengers.’

‘Reducing the example to just two balls would make the odds of an orderly arrangement occurring more likely.’

‘Rather, you should make suitable arrangements to ensure an orderly transition, when this is appropriate.’

‘The queues to honour the Queen Mother's death were good-natured and there can hardly have been a more thoroughly British expression of sympathy than the orderly queue.’

‘The cell spaces are also orderly in their arrangement, unlike typical periosteal tissue.’

neat, tidy, well ordered, in order, trim, in apple-pie order, as neat as a new pin, spick and span, well kept, straight